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    Why is European food bland?

    I am from
    California, I get to travel to Europe for work once a year. I've visited Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland , UK, and Italy. I've mostlly spent most of my time in Italy the times that I have been there. So I'll focus on that region...

    In California we have a lot of Mexican food restraunts. Some are great some are not. If you cross the border in to Mexico the food is amazing, better than what you find in California.

    I love italian food so I figured I would have the same experience the first time I visited Italy. I figured if Italian food in America is good, in Italy it's going to be amazing!

    I was wrong. The food in Italy isn't bad but it's not something that you say to yourself " I can't wait to come back to visit this restraunt"
    The pastas are bland, bread has no salt and feels like it was left out to dry for a month. ( if you're a boxer eat some of that hard ass bread.... You'll have an iron chin in no time.)
    Pizzas are plain and thin. And almost everything is the same. Pasta with tomatoe sauce, pasta with olive oil, PASTA with :__________( insert what ever ingredient here)

    Before some one posts that I probably didn't go to the right places. I visited Rome, Firence, Venice, Napoles, and south italy. I visited restraunts that were recomended to me, some I found online, some I just walked in, and I've ate at a friends house many times that is from italy. So I had home made Italian food.

    I told my friend from Italy how come they don't add some ****e or something extra to give the food more flavor so it's not too bland. He said because that's the way their ancestors cooked it and that it's the original recipe and that good food doesn't require many ingredients.

    I understand what he was saying; however, I'm pretty sure if his ancestor was able to travel threw time to today. He would see him cooking and see all the different ****es and possibilities that are available today, he would slap his great great grand kid cause he's still eating like Julius Caesar was eating in his days.

    The food isn't terrible. The chesese and salamees are good, so is the wine. Italian food is great. In my opinion Italian food was brought to America and perfected here. I just prefer American Italian instead of the authentic stuff.


    Im wondering what others here that have been to europe think of the food?


    (Im
    Typing with my phone so please excuse any mistakes)
    Tags: bland?, european, food
    #2
    Best Italian food is on Jersey Shore.

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      #3
      cuz they dont got them nice american gmo seasonings on it bro.

      they aint bout that life.

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        #4
        The Italian cuisine in Italy somehow degraded in time because of large scale tourism...

        (I'm rating the Chinese cuisine at #1, the French at #2 and Turkish at #3...)

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          #5
          I live in California too and love Mexican food but it gets very bland pretty quick and it's limited in choice. I miss European cities where they seem to have far more choice.
          Italy is different than most European countries, they are very proud of Italian food and don't have much time for anything else. If you go there expecting American style Italian you're in for a surprise, they tend to eat lots of fish.
          Throughout Europe they are very open to all types of cuisine, especially in big cities like London, Paris and Berlin, for instance you get great middle eastern food like Lebanese! Caribbean food, jerk chicken! Whoever fought Ethiopian food was good?
          You're hard pushed to find food like that here and so commonly available, most of our 'cultural' food is very commercial and obvious, Chinese, Thai, Sushi and most of it very Americanized.
          Generally in Europe the ingredients are far better and healthier.

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            #6
            The ingredients may better and healthier. That's one thing I heard a lot over seas as well. That Americans eat unhealthy as oppose to Europeans meanwhile Europeans go out and smoke a carton of cigarettes a day...

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              #7
              Originally posted by dirkdigler View Post
              The ingredients may better and healthier. That's one thing I heard a lot over seas as well. That Americans eat unhealthy as oppose to Europeans meanwhile Europeans go out and smoke a carton of cigarettes a day...
              Cigarettes don't make you fat. McDonalds does.

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                #8
                Originally posted by SlySlickSmooth View Post
                Cigarettes don't make you fat. McDonalds does.

                Im not talking about what makes you fat.. I'm saying health wise. Mc Donald's isnt healthy just like smoking isn't either.

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                  #9
                  I live 15 minutes away from NYC, I live in North Jersey and I can get any type of food I want and it will be awesome.

                  Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Greek. You name it.



                  Oh and McDonalds

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                    #10
                    Everyone's tastes are different and it doesn't make you wrong because you like American style anything. I loved a lot of food in Europe and the best meal I've had in my life was at fouquets in Paris, but in general I wasn't blown away by the food in Paris. Some places were great others were ok, but not worth the price. And I hear ya on pizza, ill take a greasy pepperoni slice over any of the **** I had in Italy, even the "real" pizza in naples. For the food in general, it's not about them needing to add more ****es, or seasoning, they're just not the kind you're into to. Plenty of European cuisine has a lot of depth.

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